i'm trying to sell my sl-c3000, but have some personal information (banking and identification and such) that i would like to get rid of first. is there any way to wipe the HD and reformat or anything? i know next to nothing about linux, so any help would be appreciated. thanks.

Meanie

Sep 20 2005, 10:37 PM

QUOTE(nobody29 @ Sep 21 2005, 04:16 PM)

i'm trying to sell my sl-c3000, but have some personal information (banking and identification and such) that i would like to get rid of first. is there any way to wipe the HD and reformat or anything? i know next to nothing about linux, so any help would be appreciated. thanks.

do a factory reset on the c3000 and everything gets wiped and unit will revert to the state in which you purchased it originally (at least software and configuration wise, except the scratches if any

daniel3000

Sep 21 2005, 12:08 AM

QUOTE(Meanie @ Sep 21 2005, 08:37 AM)

QUOTE(nobody29 @ Sep 21 2005, 04:16 PM)

i'm trying to sell my sl-c3000, but have some personal information (banking and identification and such) that i would like to get rid of first. is there any way to wipe the HD and reformat or anything? i know next to nothing about linux, so any help would be appreciated. thanks.

do a factory reset on the c3000 and everything gets wiped and unit will revert to the state in which you purchased it originally (at least software and configuration wise, except the scratches if any

Aren't there two options in the service (or flash?) menu regarding microdrie factory reset? One of them reparitions, thus makes the files inaccessible, and the other one really overwrites the hard disk with /dev/zero.The latter one would be the safer one.

daniel

nobody29

Sep 21 2005, 08:35 AM

QUOTE(daniel3000 @ Sep 21 2005, 12:08 AM)

QUOTE(Meanie @ Sep 21 2005, 08:37 AM)

QUOTE(nobody29 @ Sep 21 2005, 04:16 PM)

i'm trying to sell my sl-c3000, but have some personal information (banking and identification and such) that i would like to get rid of first. is there any way to wipe the HD and reformat or anything? i know next to nothing about linux, so any help would be appreciated. thanks.

do a factory reset on the c3000 and everything gets wiped and unit will revert to the state in which you purchased it originally (at least software and configuration wise, except the scratches if any

Aren't there two options in the service (or flash?) menu regarding microdrie factory reset? One of them reparitions, thus makes the files inaccessible, and the other one really overwrites the hard disk with /dev/zero.The latter one would be the safer one.

daniel

how do u do that? i'm sorry, but i have no clue when it comes to this thing.

thanks! so if i want to get this into selling condition, without having any of my info on it, i should just do the reset? i noticed that reverting back to factory defaults would make it go back to japanese, but i would like to keep it in english for the benefit of the buyer. thanks guys!

jfs.w

Sep 26 2005, 09:13 AM

just out of curiosity - why do u want to sell it?

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